Supervising producer Tony Cervone and writer Hugh Davidson give fans a sneak peek at The Looney Tunes Show, a new animated series coming this fall to Cartoon Network...
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CN Announces New 2010 Shows
As of April 21st, Cartoon Network announced it's new 2010 lineup featuring an array of new shows.
http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/33313/toonzone-at-the-cartoon-network-2010-upfront-updated-1145-am
12 shows have been presented and in my personal opinion, these are the ones I'm most curious to check out.
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: yet another series featuring those meddling teenagers and their goofy dog. Seems to be a throw-back to their roots with modern cartoony-cartoonists Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone acting as supervising producers.
Young Justice: Teen superheroes have to start somewhere. Various young heroes of the DC variety prove they have what it takes to join the ranks of the Justice League.
MAD: The popular spoof magazine finally gets animated in several styles in order to poke fun at almost everything that makes up pop culture.
Sym-Bionic Titan: Genndy Tartakovsky's return to animation features alien teenagers and their giant robots. Should be awesome.
And the most-anticipated series I've been looking forward too:
The Looney Tunes Show: Those wacky Warner Bros characters are now living the suburban lifestyle in half-hour adventures made up with musical segments(?) and CG Roadrunner shorts. In the long run, this seems like a terrible idea for classic cartoon stars but at least it's a step up from Baby Looney Tunes and Loonatics. Supervising producers Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone have handled the Tunes well-enough before, so this show could live up to it's roots. For today's standards that is.
http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/33313/toonzone-at-the-cartoon-network-2010-upfront-updated-1145-am
12 shows have been presented and in my personal opinion, these are the ones I'm most curious to check out.
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: yet another series featuring those meddling teenagers and their goofy dog. Seems to be a throw-back to their roots with modern cartoony-cartoonists Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone acting as supervising producers.
Young Justice: Teen superheroes have to start somewhere. Various young heroes of the DC variety prove they have what it takes to join the ranks of the Justice League.
MAD: The popular spoof magazine finally gets animated in several styles in order to poke fun at almost everything that makes up pop culture.
Sym-Bionic Titan: Genndy Tartakovsky's return to animation features alien teenagers and their giant robots. Should be awesome.And the most-anticipated series I've been looking forward too:
The Looney Tunes Show: Those wacky Warner Bros characters are now living the suburban lifestyle in half-hour adventures made up with musical segments(?) and CG Roadrunner shorts. In the long run, this seems like a terrible idea for classic cartoon stars but at least it's a step up from Baby Looney Tunes and Loonatics. Supervising producers Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone have handled the Tunes well-enough before, so this show could live up to it's roots. For today's standards that is.
More Brandt & Cervone T&J Cartoons
There are more Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone directed cartoons on the just-released Tom & Jerry Tales Volume 5 DVD.
They had their hand at writing & directing another episode consisting of 3 cartoons.
"Xtreme Trouble", "A Life Less Guarded" and "Sasquashed" are nicely timed and animated.
Both directors worked on another episode on Volume 4.
http://jedaniels-adventures.blogspot.com/2008/03/brandt-cervone-on-t-tales.html
Xtreme Trouble has Jerry Mouse pursuing a cheese truck on his skateboard while Tom pursues in chase using various "Xtreme" equipment.
In a A Life Less Guarded, Tom & Droopy Dog compete to be the best for the position of lifeguard. Droopy receives some help from Jerry while a caricature of Tex Avery and Miss Shapely look on. She's "great with figures"!
Tom goes Bigfoot hunting in Sasquashed so Jerry and Tuffy help out the hungry Andy Dick/Paul Lynd-esque Sasquatch elude him.
The bear from Tex Avery's Rock-a-bye Bear (1952) makes a guest appearance.
A lot of in-jokes were inserted into these cartoons and it seems only a fan of the Golden Age would catch them all. The bear cameo is only funny if you've seen the original cartoon. Most kids were probably left wondering why he was yelling at Tom? lol
Spike & Tony really understand how to handle these classic characters and I hope to see more of their cartoons on future volumes!
They had their hand at writing & directing another episode consisting of 3 cartoons."Xtreme Trouble", "A Life Less Guarded" and "Sasquashed" are nicely timed and animated.
Both directors worked on another episode on Volume 4.http://jedaniels-adventures.blogspot.com/2008/03/brandt-cervone-on-t-tales.html
Xtreme Trouble has Jerry Mouse pursuing a cheese truck on his skateboard while Tom pursues in chase using various "Xtreme" equipment.
In a A Life Less Guarded, Tom & Droopy Dog compete to be the best for the position of lifeguard. Droopy receives some help from Jerry while a caricature of Tex Avery and Miss Shapely look on. She's "great with figures"!
Tom goes Bigfoot hunting in Sasquashed so Jerry and Tuffy help out the hungry Andy Dick/Paul Lynd-esque Sasquatch elude him.
The bear from Tex Avery's Rock-a-bye Bear (1952) makes a guest appearance.
A lot of in-jokes were inserted into these cartoons and it seems only a fan of the Golden Age would catch them all. The bear cameo is only funny if you've seen the original cartoon. Most kids were probably left wondering why he was yelling at Tom? lol
Spike & Tony really understand how to handle these classic characters and I hope to see more of their cartoons on future volumes!
Brandt & Cervone on T&J Tales
I picked up Tom & Jerry Tales: Vol 4 on DVD recently and was pleasantly surprised that Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone directed an entire episode that consists of 3 cartoons.
"Don't Bring Your Pet to School Day", "Cat Show Catastrophe" and "The Cat Whisperer" are very well directed. 
Since both Spike and Tony like to take a hands-on approach to their cartoon direction, they were both responsible for the storyboards, the character designs and the prop designs.
I'm glad that these two cartoonists are involved with the new show since they were directors for 2 other recent Tom & Jerry projects, "The Karate Guard" and "A Nutcracker Tale".
They have been primarly Warner Bros Animation directors going all the way back to 1996's Space Jam. They also developed the Duck Dodgers television series and directed the first Baby Looney Tunes' cartoon "Little Go Beep" featuring Baby Roadrunner and Baby Coyote. Too bad they had nothing to do with the television series....
I hear that both directors have been working on more and more episodes of Tom & Jerry Tales and I hope those make it to DVD eventually, since that's the only way I see the show.
Enjoy an Animator's Director Reel which I found on MySpace posted by Tony Cervone himself!Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone's Director's Reel
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